Long before apps and smartphones, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was a program that helped with touch-typing skills. The program's fictional icon spurs an investigation.

The new documentary “Seeking Mavis Beacon” chronicles a quest for the woman who lent her face to the computer game.

Film Where Is Mavis Beacon, the Woman Who Taught Us to Type? A filmmaker and a programmer search for the model behind the iconic 1987 education software persona in a new documentary.

The filmmakers behind “Seeking Mavis Beacon” wanted to know what happened to the Black woman who was paid only a couple hundred dollars to be the face of a wildly successful typing program. To ...

The search for Mavis Beacon led the detectives to learn that multiple women had played the eponymous typing instructor at various points, but the face that most people associate with her is L ...

Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled computer users on their keyboard skills, selling more than 10 ...

Long before apps and smartphones, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was a program that helped with touch-typing skills. The program's fictional icon spurs an investigation.

The Mavis Beacon typing program can help you learn how to type even if you’ve never had a typing class. It can help you increase your typing speed and accuracy if you would like to improve your ...

Typing is a critical skill to know in the computer age. And if you just haven't gotten around to learning it by now, who better to teach you than surrealist filmmaker David Lynch? Well, it's not ...

Premiering at Sundance 2024 from an Oakland filmmaker, "Seeking Mavis Beacon” attempts to find the lost model on the cover of the famous typing software.

With Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15, you'll perform better whenever you're sitting in front of a keyboard! Track your accomplishments and stay motivated with tests, progress reports, and special ...